How much does Zore Family Foundation give?

Zore Family Foundation reported 18 grants totaling $418,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 16 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.

What does Zore Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (47%), Education (25%), Health (10%).

Who are Zore Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc ($368k), The Uwm Foundation Inc ($200k), Saint Thomas More High School Inc ($120k).

Does Zore Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Zore Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Zore Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc, Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation, Bradley Impact Fund Inc.

Where is Zore Family Foundation based?

Zore Family Foundation is based in WI.

Zore Family Foundation

Zore Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Zore Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$418k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$113k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Philanthropy$783kEducation$410kHealth$164kArts & Culture$122kReligion$87kPublic Benefit$50kYouth Development$37kEnvironment$8kOther$0

02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k8 grants · $20k
$10k–50k6 grants · $105k
$50k–250k4 grants · $293k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$176k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
UNITED WAY GREATER MILWAUKEE	$113,000
ST THOMAS MORE HIGH SCHOOL	$60,000
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN	$60,000
HISTORIC HAYMARKET MILWAUKEE I INC	$60,000
THE SALESIANUM TRUST	$25,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER MILWAUKEE	$20,000
LOVE ONE ANOTHER ARCHDIOCESAN CAMPAIGN	$20,000
WAR MEMORIAL CENTER	$20,000
NAPLES COMMUNITY HOSPTIAL	$10,000
BADGER INSTITUTE	$10,000
AFTER BREAST CANCER DIAGNOSIS	$5,000
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USA	$4,000
NATIVITY JESUIT ACADEMY	$3,000
NOTRE DAME SCHOOL OF MILWAUKEE	$2,000
NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION	$2,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.4M · 23 repeat orgs$296k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against -16% for those funded once.

23 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.4M

$71k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%

-16%

Still filing today

65%

38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $225k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Arts & CultureHealthEducationPhilanthropyPublic BenefitYouth DevelopmentOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

THE UWM FOUNDATION INC
4× · 2019–2023 · $200k · revenue +30%
CH
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN INC
5× · 2021–2025 · $64k · revenue +22%
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC
3× · 2019–2025 · $33k · revenue +27%

Funded once

UF
UWM FOUNDATION - CHANCELLOR'S STUDENT SUCCESS FUND
one grant, 2020 · $20k
WW
WOODY WILLIAMS FOUNDATION INC
one grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue -16%
VF
VOLUNTEER FL FOUNDATION
one grant, 2022 · $10k

How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

The Medical College of Wisconsin Inc

The medical college of wisconsin (mcw) is a distinguished leader and innovator in the education and development of the next generation of physicians, (continued in schedule o)

Education

United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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The University School of Milwaukee Corporation

University school of milwaukee cultivates excellence in learning, leadership, and citizenship for prekindergarten through 12th grade students. students are engaged, known, and valued within our passionate independent school community…

Education

Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc

Inspiring philanthropy, serving donors, strengthening communities, now and for future generations.

Philanthropy

My Choice Wisconsin Inc

We inspire people to experience life at its fullest by encouraging ownership of health, fostering independence, and serving the whole person; and do so with an unwavering commitment as stewards of medicaid funding.

Health

Wisconsin Policy Forum Inc

We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.

Public Benefit

Wisconsin Medical Society Inc

To improve the health of the people of wisconsin by supporting and strengthening physicians' ability to practice high quality patient care in a changing environment.

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Uwm Research Foundation Inc

Support research and innovation at the university of wisconsin - milwaukee by providing reserach funding, entrepreneurship support, and by engaging in corporate partnering activities to that end.

Community Improvement

Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health

University of Maryland Physicians Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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University of Maryland Oncology Associates Pa

Health

Burnett Medical Center Inc

The mission of burnett medical center is to provide compassionate, comprehensive, community healthcare that exceeds our customer's expectations. our mission, as well as our vision and values, serves as a guideline for daily decision making…

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is City Forward Collective Inc; the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

23 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 23 of the 38 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

23/23

Grantees still filing

14/23

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$734,000Philanthropy$387,500Education$232,700Arts & Culture$115,000Health$104,717Public Benefit$50,000Youth Development$36,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Herbert H Kohl Charities IncWI23.6× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Bradley Impact Fund Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc · Cedar Street Charitable Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Charter Manufacturing Company Foundation Inc · Sensient Technologies Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Zore Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Zore Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

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